Yimei Li, PhD, is Co-Investigator on the UPenn PRC Self-Management for Childhood Cancer Survivors Project. Dr. Li is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her research interests include clinical trial design, survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis and Bayesian methods.

Dr. Li’s main collaborative area is pediatric cancer research, including cancer epidemiological studies, translational and clinical research, and psychosocial and survivorship studies. She has authored more than 50 articles in the literature of statistical methodology, cancer research, and other areas of medicine and has extensive experience in design, conduct, and analysis of various cancer studies.

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Along with Kevin Volpp, I direct the PRC. I also am Co-Principal Investigator on The Healthy Weigh Study, Principal Investigator on the Skin Cancer Communication Project, Principal Investigator on the Cancer Prevention & Control Research Network Center and Co-Investigator on the Philadelphia Health Leadership Institute.

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